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Hi ,
I have an small issue , i have some old tracks have an option is called " Suppress Overlay " in Tag editor , i need to remove this option from all tracks assigned for that .
Please give me the best solution for clear this option from these tracks
Thank you
Mr. Ahmed Sayed

It depends a bit on where you saved it.
But in general you might do the following:

1. Open a new and empty playlist window.

2. In the Find Window use the following find text to search for all tracks having thatoption set:
~[ShouldSuppressOverlay] = True

3. Press Ctrl+A in the Find Window to mark all found entries and then drag and drop them over to the empty playlist window

4. In the playlist window also press Ctrl+A to mark all found entries.
And now make a right-click and go to the menu 'Track Setting' and locate the sub-menu called 'Options:' (a combo box edit)

5. From that 'Options:' combo box edit you can now deselect your unwanted one (ie. "SuppressOveraly").
Once you close the combo box resp.the sub-menu, the changes are taken over.
However, at this point in time the change is NOT saved persistently to the underlying audio files!

6. Make sure still all tracks are marked/selected in the playlist.

Now right-click again and select "TAG and Meta Data -> Save Meta Data TAGs".
This menu will persistently save the change to your physical audio files TAG data.
Alternatively (BUT ONLY if you are effectively use .pfmd files) select "TAG and Meta Data -> Save Meta Data Files"

Now your audio files should contain the corrected meta data.
Still your media libs might contain the 'old' options...
...remember, that media libs do 'cache' their meta data inside internal playlists as well.
As such you should now...

7. Go to the Media Library management dialog and select all relevant media libs and then perform a 'Rescan'.
After the rescan is completed you might close the playlist window without saving it.
And then perform the check/search with the Find window again used at step 2.

Hi ,
I have solved some tracks from total songs have "Suppress Overlay" option by using remove all track options , but solved only 327 Songs from 581 Song >>> So Now I have 177 Songs selected option of Suppress Overlay and cannot remove this option from these tracks !
Can you help me to edit on LiB or Playlist again
Thank you for caring

I am not sure what else to explain. I already tried to explain all.
Maybe these options are contains on playlist based media libs; in that case open the media lib directly (main ribbon tab -> Open -> Media Libraries... ->...) and then in the opened media lib playlist clear the option.
May be you are using .pfmd files with these files (if yes, delete them)... guess you need to check this!

Thank you for your post , it's already these songs inside my playlists ! but i cannot edit to remove all settings of track by using one click "Remove All Track Options " ! Can you give me an option in general settings to allow me to edit on playlist directly

I already explained the option above - please read!
In the Playlist select your Tracks, right click, select Track Setrings... and then open the Options combo box to edit the related options.
Just as explained in my post above.

Yeah , i already did it , but not effective on playlist ! , i don't know why !

Aren’t you reading my posts?
a) have you saved the TAGs ?
b) maybe you are using .pfmd files?
Have you checked this?
Else it is not possible, as there are only 3 places where PF stores meta data. The audio files TAG data, the .pfmd file, the playlist file.